Gina Haspel

Gina Haspel (1 October 1956-) was Director of the CIA from 26 April 2018, succeeding Mike Pompeo.

Biography
Gina Cheri Walker was born in Ashland, Kentucky in 1956, and she joined the CIA in 1985 as a reports officer. She served as station chief while on many different assignments, including to Ethiopia from 1987 to 1989, in Turkey, and in Azerbaijan from 1996 to 1998. In 2002, she served as chief of a CIA black site in Thailand and was responsible for the torture of prisoners with techniques such as waterboarding. She served as Acting Director of the National Clandestine Service in 2013, as Deputy CIA Director from 2017 to 2018, and as Director of the CIA from 2018.